Poverty

We believe it is possible to eradicate extreme global poverty

Issues we seek to solve:

1/2 of the world's population - more than 3 billion people - live on less than $2.50 a day

The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income, whereas the richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 43 percent of the global poor

Indigenous peoples make up about 5 percent of the world's population but for some 15 percent of the world's poor

More than eight in 10 Americans (84 percent) are unaware global poverty has decreased by more than half in the past 30 years; more than two-thirds (67%) say they thought global poverty was on the rise over the past three decades

More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty - less than $1.25 a day

Among the poor living on less than $1.25 per day, just under half have electricity

30 percent of the world's extremely poor live in India

Almost three-fifths of the world's extreme poor are concentrated in just five countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and Nigeria

An estimated 22,000 children die each year due to poverty

In the United States, more than 14.5 million (19.7 percent) children under the age of 18 were are in poverty

A third of all poor in the developing world are children 0-12 years

In developing countries (where 92 percent of children live) 7 in 100 will not survive beyond age 5

In developing countries, nearly half of all mothers and newborns do not receive skilled care during and immediately after birth